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absquatulate
ab.squat.u.late  AHD[²b-skw¼ch“…-l³t”]   DJ[#b6skwKt.*7le!t]  KK[#b6skw$t.*7let]
v.intr.（不及物动词）  ab.squat.u.lat.ed,ab.squat.u.lat.ing,ab.squat.u.lates 【美国中部】
1.To depart in a hurry; abscond:
    匆忙离开；潜逃：
  “Your horse has absquatulated!”(&b{Robert M. Bird})
    “你的马跑了”(罗伯特M.伯德)
2.To die.
    死
3.To argue.
    争论，辩论
ORIGIN
[Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean “to go off and squat elsewhere”]
    [假拉丁语结构，意指“走开，到别处蹲坐着”]
NOTES
The vibrant energy of American English sometimes appears in the use of Latin affixes to create jocular pseudo-Latin “learned” words.There is a precedent for this in the language of Shakespeare,whose plays contain scores of made-up Latinate words.Midlandabsquatulate  has a prefixab-,  “away from,” and a suffix-ate,  “to act upon in a specified manner,” affixed to a nonexistent base form-squatul-,   probably suggested bysquat.  Hence the whimsicalabsquatulate,  “to squat away from.” Another such coinage is Northernbusticate,  which joinsbust  with-icate  by analogy with verbs likemedicate.   Southernargufy  joinsargue  to a redundant-fy,  “to make; cause to become.” These creations are largely confined to regions of the United States where change is slow,and where the 19th-century love for Latinate words and expressions is still manifest.For example, Appalachian speech is characterized by the frequent use ofrecollect, aggravate, oblige,  and other such words.
    美国英语的创造力有时表现在用拉丁文词缀去创造滑稽的假拉丁文“文雅”的单词。莎士比亚的语言是一先行者，他的戏剧中有大量创造出来的拉丁词。中部地区的absquatulate 有一前缀ab-， 表“离开，走开，” 和一个后缀-ate， 表“以特殊方式行事，” 这些再加在一个不存在的词根上-squatul-，  也许是由squat 而来的。 所以奇特的absquatulate 表“走开，离开。” 另外一个这样的造词是从北部的busticate 来的，这是把bust 加上-icate 变来的，如同源动词medicate。  南部的argufy 把argue 加上多余的-fy， 意为“变成；使成为”。 这种造词只见于美国变化较慢的地区，在那儿仍保持了19世纪那种喜好拉丁语词语的习惯。比如在阿巴拉契亚地区的语言中，如同recollect，aggravate，oblige 和其他这样一些词经常被使用的